Politics is a big pain in my arse. Which is why I don't like to think about it. But..then again, I'm here, which means that I like to argue about it. Hm...I'll think more on this, later.[8D]
Mr-Pirk, you say that if Kerry doesn't widen his stance he will most certainly lose. This brings forth the idea of winning for winning's sake, and becomes more of a popularity contest of garning as many votes and pretending to represent as many people as possible just long enough to hoodwink them on Election Day. Frankly, it's what upsets me about our government's representatives the most, that they stand for nothing in and of themselves, are no one of personal belief-substance in particular, just Joe Schmoe's trying to get in office or stay in office at whatever price, touting whatever lip-service beliefs they think the voting masses will enjoy, singing them their favorite tune.
Doesn't this make anyone else angry? Or infuse them with a feeling of helplessness/hopelessness as to the hegemonistic nature of our democracy? If all of the politicians who win elections consist of simpletons whose only skill is the acquisition and maintenance of their position in office? And once in office, they continue to assure us that things are being accomplished, things are getting fixed and done rightly, and times goes by and now it's election time again, yippee!
A few years ago I heard this half joke about the "Republicrats", the name given to the 2 top political parties since they were both trying to include the other party's ideas so much, to ensure a victory on Election Day, that they have become the same exact party. Changes on their platforms for this reason disempowers the entire system for me, makes me feel as if they are all just Court Jesters singing and dancing jigs as fast as their little feet can tap out the tunes, as fast as their lilting voices can lilt, all for the high-end government paycheck and nominal place in power.
Rare is the bird who goes out for a position in office, does not support broadly-spanning stances, all inclusive and hip issues, who you actually feel is a person at the end of the day and not a Professional Politician(good for nothing else).... ...I've always wished for a requirement for politicians to be Something Else in their life, but also serving in office. Like any occupation at all, just to convince me and the rest of the voters that the person/politician in question also takes part in the real day to day system the same as the rest of us. Whether they be engineer, McDonalds manager, college professor, administrative assistant, or garbage collector, I would feel so much more confident in the abilities of my politician as a human being if they were also subject to the same rules of survival as I, for when I look at these rich old white bigsticks in office now who have never had to sweat a day in their lives to figure out how to pay their rent, I can feel no common empathy nor connection with them.
They do not represent me, they represent the masses who are letting themselves be fooled in a political game they don't care about anyways because it's too painful to think, and besides Seinfeld is on TV now and there's no extra time for that thinking, except maybe during the commercials, but then that time is also up for strict competition with going to get another beer(which I entirely sympathise with, loving a little alcohol myself).......
Vote for Kerry? Vote for Bush? They're all the same, there are no real options, unless an unpartied individual steps up to the plate, and if this happened they would never even be (allowed to be) seen as they haven't in the past, that's the nature of our election process.
Lovely, isn't it? I'd sooner vote for any of you here, even though I have "known" you for like 5 minutes, rather than any professional politician with a well-known name out there.
rant, rant, rant
...jeez I hate politics.
Any in favor, say I...Any opposed?
,SeedsofmyownDestruction
My gut feelings about the pres. elections
) but I have thought about 9-11 under Gore. Seeing how Clinton spent 8 years responding to terrorist acts, from the WTC bombing to the USS Cole, and knowing that all of these leading Democrats are basically carbon copies of one another, I believe I know what Kerry would have done . . . He would've launched a few dozen scud missiles at a middle East country, perhaps bombed an aspirin factory or two, and declared victory, while we remained in danger of terrorist attacks as much as ever. 
